New students will be slamming the elite J-school’s admissions office this Fall.

Professor Chomsky, call your office! We finally have some crap we can export to China.

Here’s one I hope he keeps:

In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn’t have the power to keep.

Finally, a promise with an Expiration Date* we can live with.

Well, almost all of us.

In a strained defense of wasteful “make work” projects to temporarily sustain government employees and their favorite no-bid contractors, the Bolshevik revolution continues with aplomb as the SouthCommunists at the reconstituted Nashville City Paper (NCP) serve up a little cover story complete with quasi-Soviet/NorK iconography:

You Forgot To Add The Sickle

ed. note – Six Meat Buffet uses Commie iconography as parody – not praise.

Among some of the brilliant observations from the Kremlinesque note-takers at the NCCCP:

More than $1 billion in stimulus funds have flowed into Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who voted for the recovery act. That money has created nearly 7,000 jobs in the geographic area that includes Davidson and parts of Wilson and Cheatham counties, according to federal figures that cover Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009.

At $1,000,000,000.00, that’s roughly $143,000 per job.  Excuse me, “nearly” 7,000 jobs.  Round it up a little.  Now would those be full-time jobs in the private sector that will be contributing taxes next year or a gubmint project filling potholes for 3 months because that’s a top 1-percenter income being funneled through the models of efficiency that are the federal and state government.  At least on Charity Navigator we can see how much went to Administrative costs.

The government’s stimulus-tracking website, recovery.gov, is designed to offer transparency about how the federal funds are being spent, and indeed, the wealth of information is almost overwhelming. The slightest bit of navigation will reveal initiatives throughout Nashville. Some, mostly construction projects, were unveiled with staged photo-ops and now don the familiar red-blue-and-green stimulus logo at their sites. Others have gone largely unnoticed. The list is much too lengthy to cover in its entirety without risking utter boredom.

You read that right.  Indeed,  they would hate to bore all you 10+% unemployed Tennesseans out there with all this free funemployment time on your hands. The information is so overwhelming we simply don’t have the ink to describe how completely awesome it is.

I thought this level of lickspittle A2M Soviet cockslobbery was reserved strictly for The Nashville Scene.

Indeed, I certainly don’t want to bore you with any more of the slavish teabaggery that Joey Garrison begged for at the wrinkled sack of the Obama Administration but this was just too much:

More heat on the street: Perhaps the most celebrated stimulus project allocated to Metro — hailed by Dean and others — is the $9 million grant awarded to the police department to bring on 50 new officers. According to spokesman Don Aaron, most of the money pays for salaries and other benefits.

That’s $180,000 per police officer added for those Metro school graduates averse to math.  Ask those cops how much they get paid a year and then ask where the other $135,000 went.

It seems Pravda On The Cumberland finally got a little competition.

Best not to examine all those Phantom Congressional Districts that got $54 Million in cream right off the top.  You say “Cream!” too loud around these inky apparatchiks and all they do is close their eyes and open their mouths.

$54 Million??? Why, that’s almost 300 new Robocops we could have bought or at least fended off lawsuits over rightfully arresting illegal aliens.  Or at least put a down payment on a light rail so we can have the illegals polishing the brass on our Shining Sanctuary City On The Hill.

Robocop: Only cost $73k in 1987 dollars (though most of his parts were made in Mexico)

Whatever you do Joey and the rest of your Comrades at the NCCCP, don’t look into that ghost money.  We’d all much rather read your incessant lacrimosas over Juana Villegas’ spilled breast milk.

…if you continually decide,

to faithfully pursue…

something something something…

I think Jonathan Springston knows the next lyric.  He probably knows the whole song by heart.

Objective truth, is not the  kind of truth that the editor of the Atlanta Progressive News deems a good fit for his rag. Truth is not their policy, so they fired it.

In the end, we had to make a very difficult decision to move forward as a publication without Jonathan Springston. Last Wednesday, we informed him it seemed more appropriate if he found work with another publication or started his own publication.

At a very fundamental, core level, Springston did not share our vision for a news publication with a progressive perspective. He held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News. It just wasn’t the right fit.

We have already begun drafting a more programmatic statement on our editorial position regarding objectivity, inter-subjectivity, and news. To be sure, I’ve commented on Creative Loafing’s blog previously about such issues.
(Inter-subjectivity?!)

In the meantime, here is some information from our Frequently Asked Questions page:
“Progressive news is news that brings us closer to universal health care, living wages, affordable housing, peace, a healthy environment, and voting systems we can trust.

We provide news of concern to working families, and therefore, our writing is geared toward a specific audience. Fortunately, our audience–working families–comprises a majority of people in the United States who are largely ignored by corporate media sources.

We believe there is no such thing as objective news. Typically, mainstream media presents itself as objective but is actually skewed towards promoting the corporate agenda of the ultra-wealthy.

The truth sure does give these guys the vapors, doesn’t it? He prefers subjective truth, which is a fancy Orwellian phrase for “lie”. But only uber-wealthy corporate media, and troglodytes like Joe Wilson, would use such an objective “fact-based” word.

The editor made sure to clarify his position in the comments section:

APNEditor Says:

1. February 15th, 2010 at 6:59 pm Also, I didn’t mean to imply–even indirectly or in the slightest way–that Creative Loafing was objective. Quite the opposite- Creative Loafing’s slant is so inline with the bourgeois, corporate ideology of most of the corporate media in Atlanta, that you all kind of reinforce and reify each other to the point where one can easily become deluded that this corporate ideology you propagate is somehow an objective truth.

I have a subjective truth. I think the term bourgeois is tres passe. I mean, who is this guy? Some mustache-twisting, goatee stroking throwback to the Bolshevik revolution? What kind of currency does Cardinale get paid in for his work ? 1905 rubles?

Probably.  I’ll go search for his picture.

That is definitely the APN editor on the far left, circa 1919.  According to my subjective truth.  Guess you have to go back that far to be “progressive”.

(I found this somewhere on Big Journalism but I lost it somewhere. I certainly didn’t find it by reading Creative Loafing.)

Update: (Or inconvenient objective truth) Atlanta Progressive News is not a non-profit, it is a corporation.

And thar she blows.

Thanks Red State’s Dan Perrin.

I needed that.  Hopefully, this will end the same way.

We've got him right where we want him!

What a traitor looks like:

Al-Qaeda is running the Department of Justice.  Foxes, henhouses and what’s for dinner:

Attorney General Eric Holder says nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department. But he does not reveal any names beyond the two officials whose work has already been publicly reported. And all the lawyers, according to Holder, are eligible to work on general detainee matters, even if there are specific parts of some cases they cannot be involved in.

So your Attorney General is taking his fellow travelers out of Al-Qaeda’s legal farm teams in the U.S. and is putting them in direct control of the Department of Justice advising on detainees that they or their firms represented.  What do I mean “formerly”?

They are still representing them.

As for everyone else, Holder lists no names and no cases, but in a paragraph filled with modifiers, he makes it clear that all the lawyers who had advocated for detainees are free to work on general detainee matters.

The senior Department officials referenced above, like other political appointees who are similarly situated, have recused from particular matters regarding specific detainees in which their former firms represent the detainee or another party and from decisions relating specifically to the dispositions of particular detainees represented by their former firms. These recusals pertain to decisions relating to particular matters involving specific parties who are or have been represented by their former law firms within the relevant time period. However, as noted above, these senior officials have been authorized to participate in policy and legal decisions regarding detainee matters, in particular matters regarding specific detainees whom their prior employer did not represent, and in decisions relating to the disposition of such detainees. [emphasis added]

Oh, well that’s clear as mud then.  I used to work for one terrorist/client and now I have to swap out with my buddy who was representing a different scumbag.  Attorney A used to work for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Attorney B used to work for Osama Bin Laden’s driver – so it’s okay for Attorney B to represent for KSM at the Dept. of Justice and it’s okay for Attorney A to represent OBL’s driver.  And this isn’t a conflict of interest how exactly?

The DoJ should be prosecuting terrorists not representing them from the inside.  In simpler times, people called this treason.  Some of us still do.

And if you think hauling Bush attorneys in front of Congress for show trials when they did nothing wrong is high drama wait until we get a hold of you.  Holder and his entire squad of Guantanamo Bay representing goons, who he refuses to name or say what they are doing,  should be frog marched in front of a military tribunal themselves and dealt with accordingly.

Instead they prosecute the people who kept America safe for eight years and put the legal lunatics who represented the enemy in charge of their former clients.  Madness.

Dramatic Re-enactment

Portrait of 69,456,897 Oddballs. We’re going to need a bigger canvas:

A family source said Bishop…was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

This story of the Alabama professor who gunned down her colleagues just keeps getting stranger and stranger. After all, I’ve never heard of a far-left extremist in Academia with an off-putting Obama cult mentality before.

Somebody get Incompetano monitoring the Twitter feeds. We may have to shut down every single U.S. college and newsroom. When this latter-day Unabombette was questioned about mailing a pipebomb to a doctor thanklessly tasked with examining some of her research:

“She was quite cavalier about it,” Fluckiger said of Bishop’s description of her interview with police. She said Bishop “grinned” as she described being asked by cops whether she’d ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. “I cannot tell you what the grin meant,” Fluckiger said.

Seven years prior, Bishop shot her brother to death in Braintree in an incident that was ruled an accident at the time.

Somehow none of this disqualified her from jumping in front of a classroom full of kids.

Oh, and she tried to hold up a car dealership.  It’s stuff like this that makes Massachusetts look like some commie cuddling, crook coddling CuckooLand.

Sometimes appearances can be deceiving.  Other times, devastatingly accurate.

Homeland Security can just wait until Bishop gets her own show on MSNBC. At least that would ensure that her infectious ideas won’t be exposed to as many people as the university.

No word yet as to whether the President will send out some free t-shirts for the victims but I expect a full rebuke of violent, leftwing looney bin radio is forthcoming.

By way of Newsbusters, it appears that Teh Won’s new Twitter-In-Chief is a MoveOn.orger/Emily’s Lister abortionist named Cambronero (from The Sweetness):

Note that the NOI was put together by the extremely loathsome Zach Exley. For those of you who might not recognize the name, you can check out his lengthy entry at Discover The Networks.

But suffice to say that Mr. Exley is an activist with the domestic terrorists known as the Ruckus Society. He has also worked as an undercover labor union organizer.

However, his great online achievement was his creation of a ‘phishing’ site, which pretended to be the official website for George Bush.

Be a terrorist. Get paid. Get taxpayer sponsorship.

Mr. Exley, we have the undercarriage of a bus with your name on it and all of your commie acolytes. Obamao’s ties are really starting to add up.

Funny that you want to take credit for General Betrayus now.

I feel better already:

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has broken from philanthropic work fighting poverty and disease to take on another threat to the world’s poor — climate change.

“Energy and climate are extremely important to these people,” Gates told Friday a TED Conference audience packed with influential figures including the founders of Google and climate champion Al Gore.

“The climate getting worse means many years that crops won’t grow from too much rain or not enough, leading to starvation and certainly unrest.”

Sometimes it rains too much. Sometimes it doesn’t rain enough. That’s life. Either that or the Goldlilocks’ porridge. I seem to recall a Dust Bowl where it didn’t rain enough. Was that Global Warming caused from aerosol underarm deodorant?

I seem to recall a great flood. Was that because we weren’t cultivating enough windfarms and driving electric cars?

We live on a spinning rock with Parkinson’s disease, people. A rock with a hot molten core. A fever if you will. And the only prescription is more Windows 98.

From the man who ran Microsoft and couldn’t keep his own operating system from crashing, I am less enthused by the thought of him running Nature without prior experience.

“The formula is a very straight forward one,” Gates said. “More carbon dioxide equals temperature increase equals negative effects like collapsed ecosystems. We have to get to zero.”

You first, Breathy.

On the bright side, we can call off the Amber Alert for Al Gore. 49 states are blanketed with snow and he was able to find a spot to peddle his Hot Earth theory where people wouldn’t pelt him snowballs.

UPDATE: I’m a Climate Denying Heretic and we’re all Environmental Sinners In the Hands of An Angry Gaia! Yet at the same time I can get Mac users to defend Gates.

I am truly all things to all people.

Hey Nigel, I think it’s going to be a little easier now for Russell to beat Murtha in 2010.

But, then again, this wouldn’t be the first time the Dependocrats have tried to elect a dead man.

UPDATE (Cranky) Yes, I know. I’m a bad person.

And The Ringo of Commies shall lead them back to the famine.

So ends the Orange Revolution:

Initial exit polls put Viktor Yanukovych, a Soviet-style politician, three to five percentage points ahead of Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival and the current prime minister. A fuller picture is expected to emerge on Monday, at which point 80 per cent of the votes are likely to have been counted.

If confirmed, Mr Yanukovych’s victory sounds a death knell for the country’s 2004 Orange Revolution that set it firmly on a pro-Western course but failed to deliver meaningful changes.

Those would be meaningful changes after Putin’s attempt to assassinate their leader.  Of course, what pro-Western country was left for them to turn?  Even in the U.S. we unfortunately have a President who dreams of a Post-American world.

Ahead of the vote, he appeared relaxed and confident. “I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life,” he said, casting his vote.

“That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.” His advisers concede he is a poor public speaker but insist he is hard- working and committed to delivering better living standards, something Ukraine desperately needs. They insist he is not the Kremlin stooge he is often made out to be, though admit his policies are likely to be more palatable to the Kremlin than those of outgoing president Viktor Yushchenko.

In other words, “Things have developed that’ll ensure security. I’ve just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.”

How’s that “reset” button working out for us?

Next stop, Romania.  Hours after stealing the Ukrainian election, the Kremlin fires a shot across the bow.

More on the AWOL, objectively pro-Communist President.

Who doesn’t love an underdog?  Year in and year out for decades the lowly Aints have struggled to even make it to a playoff but now they’re in The Big Game.  Are we supposed to be surprised when they can’t act like they’ve been there before?

NEW ORLEANS – A student at a Maurepas school was sent home by the principal for refusing to take off an Indianapolis Colts jersey, according to a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“(T)he Principal of Maurepas High School, which had declared that students could wear jerseys in support of the New Orleans Saints, punished a student for wearing a jersey in support of the Indianapolis Colts,” said ACLU Executive Director Margie Esman in an e-mail.

“The student, who had lived most of his life in Indianapolis and has an outstanding academic record, was called out of class and told that he was not allowed to wear that shirt. When he refused to change his shirt, the principal sent him home.”

We’re just talking about one out-of-control, tinpot fascist here – right?  A rogue principal whose school spirit borders on North Korean nationalism.  But then you delve into the comments section and see how far some people are willing to go to support his actions.  Running the gamut from calling for permanent expulsion of the student, to veiled personal threats of the student because “they know who he is”, to calling for arresting his parents with a few “whodats” peppered inbetween.   Rules are rules!

Maurepas High Valedictorian, Lootie: Just following the rules!

It’s easy to think some people are engaging in a bit of pre-Super Bowl hyperbole but since most Saints fans can’t spell “hyperbole” I dismissed that out of hand.  They’ve expelled one of the brighter students at their school for engaging in a harmless bit of free expression because he didn’t read the DRESS CODE.  This criticism coming from people who couldn’t watch a weather forecast for an entire week warning them to get out of the way of a CAT-5 hurricane the size of Germany.

Dumbasses don’t follow rules.

Rule #1:  Big Hurricane = Move.

But seriously, folks – Go Colts!

And if by some miracle of animal sacrifice and voodoo magic New Orleans is able to win then the police will need to be on standby.

To prevent Houston from being burned to the ground.

See the difference?  Because I don’t.

The guy who spends his whole life thinking about how to screw people in the ass has a plan to stop the ebbs and flows of the global market with some prescription-strength Astroglide applied liberally.  Yea, yea, yea.  A hammer sees every problem as a nail.

QOTD from the prolapsed Prole himself:

Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.) said that a bank tax and other tough new measures would be introduced by the individual countries, but in a coordinated way to prevent bankers from moving from one place to another to escape regulation.

“Lenin might have been able to put socialism in one country, but tough bank regulation in one country ain’t going to happen because we will lose people,” said Frank, who heads the House Financial Services Committee, a key spot for any American decisions.

But don’t call them Bolsheviks.  It’s like poison complaining about a skull and crossbones on it’s warning label.

Shorter Frank:  Wenin put sociawism in one country but what we need is a Gwobal Weninist so that the sands of other people’s money won’t swip through our fingers.

You have the head of the House Financial Services Committee arguing in favor of Global Leninism.

You can go ahead and pull your money out of the stock market now.

And apparently they aren’t going to get #1 ranking either:

The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a senator who had asked for an antitrust review.

…

“The administration shares your belief that the current lack of a college football national championship playoff with respect to the highest division of college football … raises important questions affecting millions of fans, colleges and universities, players and other interested parties,” Weich wrote.

Take your Ritalin, guys.  In a battle between the BCS and the ADHD, I’m betting on the BCS.

Nobody’s solved healthcare.  Nobody’s solved crap.  You don’t want to prosecute the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia but you’re ready to roro-rooter the BCS Series?

“Interested parties” means congressmen and senators who would like free tickets to ogle college poon and prick while they “investigate”.

Jobs are our #1 priority.  Sure.  But they’ll never get above #6 until they schedule a few more Big-12 and SEC games during election season.

I didn’t watch the SOTU last night, because I know what the “state of the union” is. We have a Marxist/narcissist for a President who has surrounded himself with other Marxist “czars” and is hell-bent on removing our liberties and economic freedom. Our CONgress is filled with socialists, elitists and every other kind of corrupt spend-o-crat that ever crawled out of the city sewer. Why would I watch this bunch of lunatics celebrate this horrible period in our history?

Jonah Goldberg tells me all I need to know.

And what he is is a petulant 3-year-old in a Marxist feminized middle-aged man’s body. On the bright side, America is starting to see through his bullshit charade.

He even had the gall to call out SCOTUS, who made the right decision last week to turn over Juan McShame’s anti-freedom-of-speech “campaign finance reform” bill. Video:

Wake me when it’s November.

Lucifer got a new head librarian today and he’s already gotten to work re-writing The Bible as the tale of a struggling, working class imp denied a living wage and cast out of eternally subsidized housing by a Zionist slavedriver buttressed by embellished, anonymous and unsubstantiated accounts (narrated by Matt Damon):

Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.

More empirical data that the good die young.

“Howard was an old and very close friend,” Chomsky said. “He was a person of real courage and integrity, warmth and humor. He was just a remarkable person.”

Despite Chomsky losing the un-American Simon to his traitorous Garfunkel, we can only hope that he will soon join him in blowing Cerberus for a few licks from his dog bowl while getting the hot poker to an endless replay of “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover”.

But it won’t all be fun and games.  As punishment for overflowing Hell’s antiquated sewage system with his bullshit, the Dark Lord then sentences Zinn to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for all eternity in front of a waving American flag and a burning Soviet one with no reprieve – save a glass of water with a twist of lemon and a loaded shotgun.

It’s good to see that the Obamessiah has the same destructive quality that President Junior had in 2006 and 2008. Wherever he goes, failure follows.

That’s why they call him Failure Face.

Our buddy Dan is on the scene in Boston along with Ace, Pamela and others.

We should have sent Cranky.

That is all.

Part 2 of what is likely to become a regular series.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will switch off lights for hours at a time in Caracas and other cities such as oil town Maracaibo in planned blackouts to tackle power shortages that threaten President Hugo Chavez’s support.

…

Critics blame the government for not investing enough in the national grid since Chavez took office 11 years ago.

The president say previous government made critical errors by building most of the nations energy infrastructure on one river that is affected by rainfall.

He “inherited” a power shortage from the previous administration though he’s been in office for 11 years.

The “Obama Defense” only works on the American media, comrade.

Not that he has to worry about the Venezuelan media that he took over bailed out years ago.

Realistic? Probably not. But, as Eric mentions, many of these people are up for re-election in 2010. It’s worth making a list and checking it twice now as we get ready to kick these traitors out next November.

These Senators are nothing less than traitors. There is NOTHING in the Constitution that allows them to take over this massive sector of the economy. Get involved in 2010, this is the best chance we may have ever had to get these Marxists out of office and back on the streets. Unfortunately, they’re so fat from their own corruption that they won’t be starving on the streets, but let’s at least put them on the streets and give it a shot.

A tutorial. (Link NS for the Surreality Impaired or HIV negative).

One day, if we keep electing shithooks like our current President, our entire country may be this luxurious.

Maybe you’ve seen the news that McShame is lamenting the fact that the GOP can do nothing to stop the government takeover of healthcare in America, or, at least, what used to be America.

As usual for the GOP, too little, too late. The bill got over its first hurdle last night.

McShame needs to grab his walker, amble down the hall to the crapper, and lean over and look at his stupid face in the mirror and thank himself for this. Because, very simply, the GOP should bear the lion’s share of the blame for this catastrophe.

“How dare I say such a thing?” the GOP sheep will ask. It all goes back to the mid-90s.

After HillaryCare went down in flames (note that the first thing the socialists do when they gain power is go after healthcare, because it is the golden ticket when it comes to controlling the population and they know it, just ask Hitler) in 1993, the American public expressed its displeasure by kicking the socialist Dim-O-Cracks out on their asses.

It was a time of sweet, sweet gridlock and a movement towards fiscal restraint and BUDGET SURPLUSES.

Unfortunately, the new wave of “conservative, small-government” Republicans soon discovered the power of the purse and the power of their own egos. Limp-wristed and self-serving leadership from dirtbags like Trent Lott and Bill Frist resulted in a GOP majority that couldn’t pass legislation to tie its own shoes, all the while playing the same pay-to-play corruption games that has become the hallmark of governments large and small.

Then in the 2000s, this pathetic GOP leadership found the perfect country-club Republican in George Bush to continue the elitist big-spending cronyism that resulted in more and more giveaways and pandering to special interests. His tenure was complicated by the islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11, but Bush never saw a spending bill he didn’t like – especially if some of those millions were going to his beloved illegals.

To make things many times worse, you had gutless, liberal GOP Senators like McCain, Lispy Graham, Snowe, Hatch, Collins, Spectre, Alexander and others whose only goals were to be praised by the leftist media and avoid any appearance of partisanship. Cowards, liars and crooks, just like their counterparts across the aisle.

This reckless spending and spinelessness resulted in the GOP getting their asses kicked all over the playground in 2006 and 2008. And they STILL DON’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND WHY IT HAPPENED.

Now, thanks to the worst Presidential candidacy since Bob Dole, we have a President who is nothing more than a moronic Marxist union thug from Chicago, surrounded by academics and labor racketeers who hate America and hate Capitalism. Yeah, I went there.

This administration and the other Congressional Communists – Reid, Pelosi, Durbin, Frank, Byrd, Nelson, et al – are rushing to spend as much as possible and pass as much economy crushing legislation as possible because everything they do is opposed by a majority of the American public. It’s now or never to bring down Capitalism once and for all, and they’re getting closer with each 1 am vote.

Some have gone a little further and suggested that the Obamabots are pushing towards an intentional collapse of the economy and monetary system so that the America that we grew up with will be burned down and rebuilt by these same thugs, in their utopian socialist image. When you look at what they’re spending compared to previous eras, it’s hard to argue with them.

At every turn, this administration (in conjunction with its co-conspirators in congress) has been pushing legislation that strips away your liberty and removes your freedom of choice. It’s all geared toward restricting your freedom and shutting down America’s once-great economic engine. Don’t be fooled by their love of the “environment” – the ultimate goal of these people is totalitarian control, not saving the planet from their own manufactured junk science.

Now the GOP is standing around with their finger in their collective ass wondering how they are going to stop this Marxist freight train. They have one of two choices: (1) merge with the tea-party movement and put the constitution, limited government, spending restraint and budget slashing above all else, and pledge a blood oath to REPEAL everything they can, including healthcare OR (2) relegate themselves to the dustbin of history while a new third party emerges that is focused on returning this country to its roots of self-reliance, limited government, federalism and the well-designed limitations of the Constitution.

If history is any indicator, you can go ahead and purchase your sympathy card for the GOP’s next of kin.

Apparently things are completely falling apart in Carbonhagen – riots, madness, styrofoam cups, people eating meat, real fur coats, CFC-laden hairspray cans, it’s crazy.

Gee, I hope nobody gets hurt.

Not content to wait for the current President’s “job summit” for ideas as to how to get Americans back to work, the House of Representatives lead by example and will start working the Night Shift:

The House voted Thursday to permanently extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

The bill passed by a 225-200 vote, with all Republicans opposed. Majority Democrats argued that a permanent tax rate makes it easier for families and small business owners to do estate planning, noting that fewer than 1 percent of all estates are subject to the tax.
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“In America, it’s not a sin to be rich nor is it a crime to die rich,” said Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo. “This bill gives our nation’s wealthiest families the ability to know exactly what their obligation to the nation that fostered their wealth will be, and it is fair and it is just.“

45% is “fair and just” because you did nothing more than die.

Money that was taxed when you originally earned it. Taxed every time you spent it. Taxed any time you sold something and now, when you die, there’s nothing more “American” you can do than to make sure you croak with your mouth open so these looting vultures can get any gold or silver out of your fillings with their federal pliers.

Your Congress at work.

I love the way Democrats sold this plan to themselves.  It was a tough sell.  “It’s easier for families to do estate planning” – we get half. Divide it by 2. Can’t get any simpler than that unless you divide it by one and don’t think it’s because they don’t want to.

There’s nothing noble in taking up for the wealthy. Face it. The majority of the people who would benefit from an estate wind up being trust-fund commies who never have to work a day in their life and have no concept of money because a relative busted their ass to become a success and they hit the Last Name Lottery. It would be nice to rationalize this that way.

But there is something fundamentally Un-American about your Congress lifting a lantern and a shovel in the dead of night to dig up your father to steal the wedding ring off his finger because the government that stole as much as they could from him while he was alive wants one last shot at him.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, likened the estate tax to stealing from the dead.

“After someone dies and someone comes in and steals from them, we consider that in most society reprehensible,” said Gohmert, a former judge. “I have sentenced people personally to prison for doing that.”

Don’t stop now, your Honor. Personally, I’d prefer they be sentenced to Hell where they belong.